CRI215H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Precipitin, Perjury, False Evidence
19 Sep 2019
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Legal pluralism is a central theme in the reconceptualization of the law/society relation. Social scientists were interested how colonized tribes and villages maintained social order without european law: over time, they realized that colonized people had both indigenous law and. European law: the introduction of european colonial law created a plurality of legal orders but overlooked the complexity of previous legal orders these situations were termed legal pluralism. However, legal pluralism goes far deeper than the joining of european and traditional forms of law; indigenous law had been shaped by conquests and migrations for centuries. Classic legal pluralism authors term of research concerning colonial and post- colonial societies. Legal pluralism has expanded from a concept that refers to the relations between colonized and colonizer to relations between dominant groups and subordinate groups. In societies without colonial pasts, however, the nonstate forms of normative ordering are more difficult to see.
